Hi Joe, I don't have the answer for your question, but I did a lot of work converting curves as a chain of quadratic Bezier paths. Take a look at my message number 48789. Good luck, Samy
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Joe Gammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been struggling with this problem for some time > and have not yet found an answer. Basically I want to > convert a path containing an "elliptical arc curve" > command to a "cubic bezier curve" command like so: > > Convert this: > > M (x y) A (rx ry rotation large-arc-flag sweep-flag x > y) > > > To this: > > M (x y) C (x1 y1 x2 y2 x y) > > This may seem like a backwards thing to do, but please > just humor me. I don't want to get into the details > as to why I want to carry this conversion out. I just > do. Also I am sure there are parsers or conversion > utility programs out there, however I would like to > know how this can be done mathematically (i.e. with a > paper and pencil and calculator). One wrinkle I see > is that if the large-arc-flag is 1, then two or three > cubic bezier commands (C) may be required to describe > the path. > > There have been a number of questions in this forum > regarding ellipses, so the solution to this problem > may be of interest to other people as well. > > Any advice or help you can give me would be GREATLY > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
